Circadian clocks in mood-related behaviors
- Albrecht, Urs Department of Biology, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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30.04.2010
Published in:
- Annals of Medicine. - 2010, vol. 42, no. 4, p. 241-251
English
The circadian clock organizes biochemical and physiological processes of an organism in a temporal fashion. This temporal organization is crucial to avoid interference of processes that have adverse effects on each other. Thus, disruption of temporal organization can lead to health problems and behavioral disorders related to mood alterations. To alleviate the consequences of a disrupted temporal organization in the body, it is of importance to understand the processes involved in the synchronization of all body clocks and their phase relationship to the environmental day/night cycle at the mechanistic level. This review will focus on internal and external factors affecting synchronization and function of the circadian system and highlight connections to mood-related behavior.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Biologie
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 18076
- DOI 10.3109/07853891003677432
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/301590
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